Basildon and Thurrock Hospitals

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING: SEE HOW YOUR HOSPITALS ARE RUN

The next Board of Directors meeting of Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be held on Wednesday 26 June 2013 , in Rooms B2/B3 in the Education Centre, Basildon University Hospital, starting at 2.30pm .

Local people are welco...

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Raising waste awareness

Each day Basildon and Orsett Hospitals generate five tonnes of waste. This is split between recycling and domestic waste, confidential paper waste and different types of clinical waste including sharps.

Staff at Basildon Hospital were able to find out...

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Trust launches infant feeding website during

This month is Breastfeeding Awareness Month and to mark it Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is officially launching its new infant feeding website.

The website www.feedingtogether.com offers a wealth of information about f...

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Getting patients home sooner

A team focused on helping get patients home as soon as they are well is already seeing positive results just a few weeks after the pilot project was launched at Basildon Hospital.

Alongside normal discharge processes, the team is concentrating on work...

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Nursing through the generations

When Samantha Thake was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a young child, one of the first people who helped care for her at Basildon University Hospital was student nurse Nicola Lewis.

The two struck up a close relationship that has endured for nearly...

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Paving the way for future research

 

Most advances in modern medicine and healthcare have been made possible by clinical trials, which look at new ways to detect, prevent and treat diseases. So research staff at Basildon University Hospital have been raising awareness of their wor...

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